238 CORNACES. [Corokia. 
pedicels short. Petals lanceolate, acute. Drupe 4in. long, 
broadly oblong, dark-red.—C. buddleoides var. b, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 98; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 106; F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. 16. 
CuHaTHaM IsnANps: Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers! Captain G. Mair! Cox! 
Whakataka ; Hokotaka. 
Closely allied to C. buddleoides, but amply distinct in the broader leaves, 
axillary racemose flowers, and larger fruit. 
3. C. Cotoneaster, Raoul, Choix, 22, t. 20.—A rigid densely 
branched shrub 4-8 ft. high; branches tortuous and interlaced ; 
bark black; branchlets, under-surface of leaves, and inflorescence 
clothed with appressed silvery-white tomentum. Leaves alternate 
or in alternate fascicles, 4-lin. long; blade orbicular to obovate or 
oblong-ovate, obtuse or emarginate, coriaceous, shining above, sud- 
denly narrowed into a broad flat petiole. Flowers small, axillary 
and terminal, solitary or 2—4 together ; pedicels short, bracteolate. 
Petals narrow linear-oblong, acute. Drupe globose, +in. diam., 
red.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 98; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 106; Kark, 
Students’ Fl. 224. 
NortH anp SourH Istanps: Not uncommon from the North Cape to 
Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—January. 
What may prove to be a fourth species of Corokia has been collected by 
myself at Spirits Bay, in the North Cape district. It is a twiggy bush 6-12 ft. 
high, with slender branches, not tortuous. Leaves alternate, }-14in. long, 
narrow linear-obovate or oblanceolate, narrowed into very short petioles. 
Flowers and fruit not seen. 
2. GRISELINIA, Forst. 
Shrubs or trees; branches terete or angled, transversely scarred 
at the nodes. Leaves alternate, often unequal at the base, broad, 
very coriaceous; petiole dilated into a short sheath, jointed on the 
branch. Flowers small, dicecious, in glabrous or pubescent panicles 
or racemes; pedicels jointed. Male flowers: Calyx minute, 5- 
toothed. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5. Disc fleshy, penta- 
gonous. Females: Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, limb 5-toothed. 
Petals valvate or wanting. Rudimentary stamens wanting. Ovary 
1-2-celled ; styles 3, very short, subulate, recurved; ovules solitary 
in each cell. Fruit a 1- or rarely 2-celled berry, 1-seeded ; seed 
oblong, testa membranous. 
A small genus of 6 species, 4 of which are natives of Chili, the remaining 
2 endemic in New Zealand. The Chinese and Japanese genus Awcwba is very 
closely allied. 
Leaves large, 3-7in., very unequal at the base. Petals 
wanting in the female flowers ne 4c wy. 1. Gllteida. 
Leaves smaller, 13-4 in. long, not very unequal at the base. 
Petals present in both male and female flowers .. 2. G. littoralis. 
1. G. lucida, Forst. Prodr. n. 401.—A stout branching shrub or 
small tree 3-25 ft. high, often growing on rocks or epiphytic on the 
branches of tall forest trees; bark thick, furrowed. ‘Leaves 3-7 in. 
